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Braceros

Author : Deborah Cohen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807899674
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Braceros written by Deborah Cohen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen creatively links the often-unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show why those with connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies.

From the Jaws of Victory

Author : Matthew Garcia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953665
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book From the Jaws of Victory written by Matthew Garcia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Garcia’s gripping account of the expansion of the union’s grape boycott reveals how the boycott, which UFW leader Cesar Chavez initially resisted, became the defining feature of the movement and drove the growers to sign labor contracts in 1970. Garcia vividly relates how, as the union expanded and the boycott spread across the United States, Canada, and Europe, Chavez found it more difficult to organize workers and fend off rival unions. Ultimately, the union was a victim of its own success and Chavez’s growing instability. From the Jaws of Victory delves deeply into Chavez’s attitudes and beliefs, and how they changed over time. Garcia also presents in-depth studies of other leaders in the UFW, including Gilbert Padilla, Marshall Ganz, Dolores Huerta, and Jerry Cohen. He introduces figures such as the co-coordinator of the boycott, Jerry Brown; the undisputed leader of the international boycott, Elaine Elinson; and Harry Kubo, the Japanese American farmer who led a successful campaign against the UFW in the mid-1970s.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

They Saved the Crops

Author : Don Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034401X
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book They Saved the Crops written by Don Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros—“guest workers” from Mexico hired on an “emergency” basis after the United States entered the war—an even more intense struggle ensued over how agriculture would be conducted in the state. Esteemed geographer Don Mitchell argues that by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labor as a problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers, an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still with us. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the landscape itself. For growers, the problem was finding the right kind of labor at the right price at the right time. Workers struggled for survival and attempted to win power in the face of economic exploitation and unremitting violence. Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell’s account promises to be the definitive book about California agriculture in the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Mission to Microchip

Author : Fred Glass
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288416
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book From Mission to Microchip written by Fred Glass and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers’ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What’s the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. From Mission to Microchip unearths the hidden stories of these people throughout California’s history. The difficult task of the state’s labor movement has been to overcome perceived barriers such as race, national origin, and language to unite newcomers and natives in their shared interest. As chronicled in this comprehensive history, workers have creatively used collective bargaining, politics, strikes, and varied organizing strategies to find common ground among California’s diverse communities and achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. This is an indispensible book for students and scholars of labor history and history of the West, as well as labor activists and organizers.

Labor-management Irregularities: Investigation of Discrimination in Employment and Irregularities in the Field of Labor-management Relations

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Labor-management Irregularities: Investigation of Discrimination in Employment and Irregularities in the Field of Labor-management Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Race After the Internet

Author : Lisa Nakamura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135965730
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Race After the Internet written by Lisa Nakamura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context of an increasingly digitally mediatized cultural and informational landscape. Using social scientific, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic approaches, these essays show how new and old styles of race as code, interaction, and image are played out within digital networks of power and privilege. Race After the Internet includes essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to social media technologies like Facebook and MySpace, popular online games like World of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors also investigate the ways in which racial profiling and a culture of racialized surveillance arise from the confluence of digital data and rapid developments in biotechnology. This collection aims to broaden the definition of the "digital divide" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of access, usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality. Contributors: danah boyd, Peter Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouché, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest Wilson

Investigation of Labor-managemnent Relations, Hearings Before..., 81-2, Oct. 20 - Feb. 18, 1950

Author : United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Labor-managemnent Relations, Hearings Before..., 81-2, Oct. 20 - Feb. 18, 1950 written by United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farm Worker Futurism

Author : Curtis Marez
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452951659
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Farm Worker Futurism written by Curtis Marez and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture. Marez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other media technologies expressed a “farm worker futurism,” a set of farm worker social formations that faced off against corporate capitalism and government policies. In addition to drawing fascinating links between the worlds envisioned in UFW videos on the one hand and visions of Cold War geopolitics on the other, he demonstrates how union cameras and computer screens put the farm worker movement in dialogue with futurist thinking and speculative fictions of all sorts, including the films of George Lucas and the art of Ester Hernandez. Finally Marez examines the legacy of farm worker futurism in recent cinema and literature, contemporary struggles for immigrant rights, management–labor conflicts in computer hardware production, and the antiprison movement. In contrast with cultural histories of technology that take a top-down perspective, Farm Worker Futurism tells the story from below, showing how working-class people of color have often been early adopters and imaginative users of new media. In doing so, it presents a completely novel analysis of speculative fiction’s engagements with the farm worker movement in ways that illuminate both.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil Rights in Bakersfield

Author : Oliver Rosales
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477329595
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Civil Rights in Bakersfield written by Oliver Rosales and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

From West to East

Author : Stephen Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book From West to East written by Stephen Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FROM WEST TO EAST Stephen Schwartz dispels the myth that American national culture developed first in the East and spread westward across the frontier. He reveals that there was a parallel American founding in 16th Century California - a truly multicultural society that produced a unique cultural mix of Spanish, Asian, European and Native American influences. Preserved by geographic isolation and fantastic natural wealth the states unique phantasmagorical 'mentality ' has become a powerful force in shaping American identity. Schwartz chronicles the state's turbulent life from its discovery by the Spanish through the Civil War, the Great Depression and the birth of modern radicalism as a 'style' in the Beatnik revolution and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Bringing in some of the key figures of American history, this ambitious epic draws a vivid portrait of the near-mythical, intoxicating landscape of California.

Spiders in the House and Workers in the Field

Author : Ernesto Galarza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Spiders in the House and Workers in the Field written by Ernesto Galarza and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Escape

Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691259259
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Great Escape written by Angus Deaton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind. Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks: the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on the one hand, and disastrous famines and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the other. He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality. He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of more than a billion people. Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful. He suggests alternative efforts—including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions—that will allow the developing world to bring about its own Great Escape. Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.

The Changing Mexican-American

Author : Rudolph Gomez
Publisher : Pruett Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Mexican-American written by Rudolph Gomez and published by Pruett Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Struggling in the Land of Plenty

Author : Anne R. Roschelle
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793600775
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Struggling in the Land of Plenty written by Anne R. Roschelle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender inequality contributed to the rise in family homelessness and the devastating consequences for parents and their children. Struggling in the Land of Plenty analyzes the appalling conditions under which homeless women and children live, the violence endemic to their lives, the role of the welfare state in perpetrating poverty, and their never-ending struggle for survival.